OUTEX is a sports and rehabilitation app developed by Ukrainian teenagers. It works on the basis of AI, which helps identify key points on the body, analyze users' movements, and evaluate the correctness of exercise performance.
OUTEX is a sports and rehabilitation app developed by Ukrainian teenagers. It works on the basis of AI, which helps identify key points on the body, analyze users' movements, and evaluate the correctness of exercise performance.
The startup team presented its development at the finals of the World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in New York.
The OUTEX application can be useful for two groups of people. The first is active people who want to do sports anytime, anywhere, regardless of the circumstances. The second is those who need rehabilitation, but for certain reasons are unable to visit specialized facilities.
But, in fact, the story of OUTEX began with the idea of creating a fitness bracelet for professional athletes, which belonged to the startup’s co-founders, Ernest Laptev and Gennady Chaliy.
However, the idea later transformed into the application that the startup is currently working on. Yulia Tkachenko, another team member, suggested that the guys add rehabilitation opportunities to the application.
«I had a knee injury at one time, and due to a full-scale war, I had to suspend my recovery. So I wanted to help people who were in a similar situation. In addition, many military and civilians now need rehabilitation,» the girl says.
The team is currently supplementing the application with sports exercises, and will then move on to rehabilitation exercises.
In addition to the OUTEX application, other developments by Ukrainians were presented in New York. Vadym Dobrovolsky, a schoolboy from Skvira in the Kyiv region, developed a system that can protect various types of domestic drones from the effects of enemy electronic warfare. The Khmelyuk sisters created an AI system for sorting garbage. The idea for EcoMind arose because of the stench from a garbage dump in the Kyiv region.
